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Agility and Resilience in Supply Chain Execution: Imperatives in an Unpredictable World, Part 1

BlueYonder

This blog is based on an article that recently ran in the Journal of Supply Chain Management, Logistics & Procurement, “ Supply chain agility: An imperative in an unpredictable world.”. In today’s age of great volatility, agility has become the new competitive differentiator.

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Supply Chain Execution Explained

ShipBob

For an ecommerce business to succeed, building a resilient and agile supply chain should be top priority. Without supply chain agility , unforeseen problems and short-term hiccups could result in major disruptions that are often expensive and sometimes irrecoverable. What is supply chain execution?

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Creating a Resilient and Agile Supply Chain

Enterra Insights

The first lesson supply chain professionals learned at the outset of the pandemic was the importance of resilience. The second lesson was equally important — supply chains must be agile. At the same time, 60% admit that their supply chains have not been designed for resilience, but cost-efficiency.

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The Role of Digitisation and Analytics in Supply Chain Resilience

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

The Role of Digitisation and Analytics in Supply Chain Resilience. by Dr Shereen Nassar – Global Director of Logistics Studies and Supply Chain Management Programmes Heriot-Watt University Dubai. Digital Supply Chain to Drive Resilience. Analytics for Diversifying the Supply Base.

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Instilling Added Efficiencies and Transportation Agility- Uber Freight and Oracle Partnership

Supply Chain Matters

As developments regarding industry supply chain disruptions continue unabated, businesses now increasingly face the sting of higher supply chain and transportation driven costs impacting the bottom line. The exploding costs of diesel and gasoline fuel now have a direct impact to business profitability.

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Logility’s President Tops Charts in 2022 Rock Stars of the Supply Chain Awards?

Logility

Allan Dow honored as an influential individual shaping the global food supply chain industry. And, the supply chain leaders receiving this award are no exception,” says Marina Mayer, editor-in-chief, Food Logistics and Supply & Demand Chain Executive. ATLANTA – Feb. 15, 2021 – Logility, Inc.,

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Painless Retail Returns with Christian Piller

The Logistics of Logistics

Christian is a co-founder and Chief Commercial Officer of Pollen, a technology platform revolutionizing the reverse supply chain for retailers with pickups from consumers’ doorsteps for less than a standard return shipping label. Christian Piller and Joe Lynch discuss painless retail returns. He is Purdue University’s Mitch E.